(WFP Rate means the total number of people participating in the work force or looking for work. This lowered percentage means that there’s a smaller pool of people measured as “workers” in the economy than during the Bush presidency, thus bringing the overall unemployment down from a real measured unemployment rate of 15%. According to Townhall.com, “the U-6 ‘real’ unemployment figure crept up to a full 15 percent. The U-3 number [8.3 percent] would be 11 percent if Obama had maintained the workforce participation rate he inherited. Instead, it has slipped to a three-decade low, perversely “helping” the unemployment rate.”)

-Debt: $15,956,622,160.00 (Note: at the time of the posting of this article it rose to $15,956,628,035,813.00. Additionally, the debt ceiling has been risen, allowing for debt spending over 16 trillion dollars.)

-Deficit as projected by the Congressional Budget Office for FY 2012: 1.1 trillion

President Bush’s numbers were by no means good. In fact, they were pretty bad. President Obama then proceeded to run a campaign based upon the concepts of Hope and Change. On the campaign trail, he called Bush “unpatriotic” for holding such a debt, yet has proceeded to spend like a drunken sailor, raising the debt to the astronomical sum we see today.

You’re welcome!
I was watching Fox’s “The Five” last night, and they were playing clips of various Obama administration members, campaign workers and advocates being asked that question. . . and as I watched them beat around the bush I thought it’d be a good idea to lay it out there for people to see. Stats don’t lie! Unless of course we consider the unemployment rate. . . which has enjoyed a much lower percentage rating due to the fact that the Administration no longer counts those who have quit looking for work. . . (i.e. the Workforce Participation Rate).